The Game Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Arttists
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Neil Strauss (Style) - The Game (complete e-book)
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He was the first person I'd met since joining the seduction community who didn't let me down. His name was Tom Cruise. "This is going to be great, man," he greeted me when I met him at wheelie school. He smiled, complimented my adventurousness, and smashed a friendly elbow into my chest. It was the exact same AMOGing gesture that Tyler Durden had written about in London. He wore black bike leathers with a matching helmet tucked under his left arm and two days of stubble on his chin. "I'm training to jump a trailer," he said. He pointed to a mobile home sitting just off the track. "It'll be bigger than that one. But it's not that hard." He squinted at the vehicle for a moment, visualizing the feat. "Well, the jumping's not that hard. It's the landing that's difficult." He cocked his right hand and slugged me in the shoulder. Tom Cruise was the perfect specimen. He was the AMOG that Tyler Durden and Mystery and everyone else in the seduction community had been trying to emulate. He had a natural ability to remain dominant, phys- ically and mentally, in any social situation without seeming to exert any ef- fort. And he was the living embodiment of all six of Mystery's five characteristics of an alpha male. Nearly everyone in the community had studied his films to learn body language and regularly used terminology from Top Gun in the field. There was so much I wanted to ask him. But first I needed to confirm something. "So what made you pick me for this article?" The dust lifted off the track and blew around us as we clutched our bike helmets under our arms. "I dug your New York Times piece," he replied. "You were writing about the dating guys." So it was true. He paused and his eyes narrowed to slits, indicating that he was speak- ing about a serious topic. His left eye closed a little more than the right one, 246 giving the appearance of deep intensity. "Now is that guy you wrote about in your article really saying that the character in Magnolia is based on him? Is he saying that?" He was talking about Ross Jeffries. One of Ross's claims to fame was that he was the inspiration for Frank T.J. Mackey in Paul Thomas Ander- son's film Magnolia. Mackey was the character Cruise played: an arrogant se- duction teacher with unresolved father issues who wears a headset during his seminars and orders his students to "respect the cock." "He shouldn't," Cruise continued. He swallowed a salt pill and chased it down with a long swig of bottled water. "That's not okay. It's not true. Re- ally. That is an invention that PTA had." PTA is Paul Thomas Anderson. "That guy is not Mackey at all. He is not Mackey." It seemed important for Cruise to establish this. "I worked on creating that character with Paul Thomas Anderson for four months. And I didn't use that guy at all." 10 Cruise sat me on his 1000 CC Triumph motorcycle and taught me how to start the engine and shift gears. Then he raced around the track, popping wheelies, while I wiped out going five miles an hour on his top-of-the-line bike. Afterward, he brought me into his trailer. The walls were covered with pictures of the children he and his ex-wife Nicole Kidman had adopted. "Has this Jeffries guy turned his character more Mackey-ish since the movie?" Cruise asked. "He's arrogant and megalomaniacal like Mackey. But he's not as alpha male as Mackey." "I'll tell you something," Cruise said as he sat down at a table spread with finger sandwiches and cold cuts. "When I did that monolog as Mackey, we didn't tell the audience anything about what we were doing. And the guys just started getting pumped up as I was talking. So at the end of the day, PTA and I had to get on stage and say, 'Look, man. We just want to tell you that where this character is going and what he's saying is not good. And it's not okay.'" Here came the lecture. First Dustin; now Tom Cruise. I couldn't under- stand it. What was wrong with learning how to meet women? That's what we're here for. It's how the species survives. All I wanted was an evolution- When asked how he had come up with the character of T.J. Mackey in an interview in Creative Download 2.8 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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